Riff: David Bowie – “Valentine’s Day”

It’s in his scrawny hand/It’s in his icy heart/It’s happening today

Channeling his ‘Berlin’ period, shimmering with warm Tony Visconti production touches a la “Heroes” and “Rebel Rebel,” Bowie gets his “Jeremy” on with a deliciously call-and-response pop-cryptic tale of an ‘icy-heart’ teen following a path a tortured society needs no more of, ever.

Dude! You’re like an evil question-mark suit man. Heed the scripture of Bowie.

Riff by Gavin Paul

Gavin Paul is SONGLYRICS' Editor-in-Chief. Chicago-bred, New York-sculpted, his words and ideas have appeared in publications ranging from Spin and Rolling Stone to The Chicago Sun-Times and Arborist News.